Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects

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10/4/2011

In this final installment of Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One, Deke McClelland creates a total of seven 3D type effects from scratch. This project-based course shows how to create and modify 3D type, craft hand-drawn effects, and design complex character extrusions. The course also explains how to color-correct and post-process 3D type in Camera RAW.

Topics include:

Smearing colors across letters

Creating drop-and-splatter effects

Tracing character outlines with smart filters

Rotating, positioning, and scaling words

Quickly (and accurately) masking 3D letters

Assigning complex, high-quality bevels

Matching 3D type to a photographic scene

Adding a crack to a grunge letter

Making a 3D pillow inflation

Simulating worn fabric with soft noise

Making blocky type using depth maps

Carving recessed type in a tree

Creating a sunken extrusion

Bending 3D text as a Smart Object

Skill Level Intermediate

5h 51m

Duration

134,845

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- Hi, I'm Deke McClelland.Hello and welcome toPhotoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One: 3D Type Effects,the final installment in my four-part serieson 3D in Photoshop.In this course I'll share with you a variety of recipesfor creating 3D-type effects in Photoshop Extended.We start with this standard text layer inside of Photoshopand then we extrude and slant the type in 3D space.I go ahead and add what's known as a diffused textureto create these trails of blood and then I add some bevelsand some lights in order to get this effect here.

Now it wouldn't be Photoshop if you couldn't merge the 3Dalong with a 2D photograph and then we go aheadand develop this image in none other than Camera Raw.Next, add the movie poster text.Next comes a hand-drawn effect.I go ahead and take these letters, rotate them in 3D space,add those wiggly, faux hand-drawn lines.Then why not just make this text sing?Why not go for something quite the opposite?Wouldn't it be great if you could extractmasks of every single surface inside of a 3D graphic?Well turns out you can, which allows me to brighten upthose letters and then finally add some smoke.

Now no 3D type course would be complete without grunge type.I go ahead and dress up the letters, add a few 2D elementsin order to finish off the scene,and then finally develop the image inside Camera Raw.What's the opposite of grunge type?Something soft and squishy.I go ahead and turn these letters into pillow inflationsand then I wrap them up, add some shadows as well.Maths certainly does rock, but it rocks even harderwhen it's expressed as a depth map.I go ahead and set that text down, light it,project some shadows, integrate it witha photographic texture.

Wouldn't it be great if we could trace each and every blockwith an outline and come up with this here?Finally we've got this tree.Doesn't it just make you wanna carve a heartthat was created inside Adobe Illustrator?It's projected outward but ultimatelywe get this effect here.And of course since we're using Photoshop,we can repeat this carving over and over again.And that's it my friends.We've got seven different type effectsbrought to you by Photoshop Extended and lynda.com.